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Naming Your Black Cat: Name Ideas for Cats with Black Haircoats

Are you looking for that perfect cat name that just fits your Kitty? Does your cat have black hair?

Naming a cat can be difficult. One way many pet owners do it is to look for a name that goes with your cat’s physical characteristic such as his coat color.

Here are some cat names that can be associated with those black hair-coated cats! I hope this helps you find the perfect name for your cat! If you can’t find your name here – go to our Ultimate Cat Name List!

Do you have any suggestions for cat names? Email us or add to the comment section below your cat name ideas and we will try to add them to our cat name list!

Great Name Ideas for Black Cats

Ace (for the ace of spades)

Amadeus

Angus

Ashes

Anisette (French – or Anise), with a nickname of Ani.

Atticus- This is for the band, the record label and To Kill A Mockingbird.

Bagheerah – for the black Panther in The Jungle Book

Bear (my little black bear!)

BeeBee after BB king

Blackie

Blake (means black)

Blackjack (a lucky card)

Blackbeard

Blackula

Black Purrl

Boo

Boo-Boo

Bogie – as in Humphrey Bogart

Buckwheat – Eddie Murphy character on SNL

Calo (Meanas Black in the Roma Language)

Cinderella” and call her “Cinders” to reflect her black coat.

Carbon

Cinder Ella (pink nose) (Cinder – e.g. volcanic ash)

Charcoal

Cheyenne

Coal

Coffee

Chocolate Chip

Colbie (black as coal)

Crow

Darth Vader

Daegan Kai – Irish /asian meaning dark haired / fire

Dante Alexander- Italian – taken Dante’s Inferno and Alexander the Great

Dragon

Damion

Darth Vader

Dugan – means black haired in celtic

Duncan (means black warrior)

Ebony

Elvira

ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK

Espresso

Flint

Forest

Hades – God of the under world

India (for India ink)

Indigo

Inky

Inkspot – goes by “Spotters”

Guiness

Jacket

JAGUAR or Jaggie

Jet

Johnny Cash (AKA Cash)

Kole – alternate spelling of Coal

Kieran Mael – Irish name meaning dark

Kemnebi (means black panther in ancient Egyptian)

“Kuro”(KOO-ROH) which is the Japanese word for Charcoal

Leto of the Dark Cloak was the mother of the Greek gods Apollo and Artemis.

Licorice

Likrish (a phonetic spelling of Licorice)

Negra

Ninjia

Nuit – Nuit was the Egyptian goddess of the night sky

Magic (as in black magic)

Matches

Maverick

Merlin

Midnight

Misty

Morticia

Monster

Musqua (Little Bear)

Mystery

Obsidian

Onyx

Oreo

Pearl (she was such a gem – my black pearl)

Panther

Pepsi

Prieta- Spanish for Blackie

Pepper

Phantom

Poppy (for Poppy Seeds)

Raven

Retread (a stray, all black)

Redunzel (actually spelt RDNZL)- name Frank Zappa gave to a small black kitten through his then 3-year son changed the cats name to “Fighty Bitey”- Zappa wrote an instrumental with this name inspired by the sight of the kitten playing.

Rosie (in honor of Rosa Parks)

Rasputin the mysterious dark Russian monk

Rubber

Sabbath

Salam (for Halloween)

Samantha

Sarrasine- From the French Medieval word “Sarrasin” which comes from the much older word “Saracen” and simply means a dark skinned person.

Satchmno (after Louis Armstrong)

Satchmo Jazz

Sammy (for Sammy Davis Jr.)

Shade

Shadow

Shady

Sheba – as in African Queen

Spade for Ace of Spades

Sharpie, like a black Sharpie pen

Sky

Skye

Skylar

Soot

Sootie

Spider

Spooky (some also answer to Pookums)

Spyda (spider)

Sooty

Stormie

Tar

Teddy

Talladega- named for one as black as the Talladega race track.

Tire

Treacle: We named our black cat Treacle–the Scottish word for Molasses–in the sunlight his fur looked like it was tinged with brown.

Trilby Pantera – all black and constantly trills

Vadar

Velvet (a coat like black velvet)

Yogi – as in Yogi Bear

Yum Yum

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